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Designed for the Novice, Powered for the
Professional
Using TechTool Pro, you don't need to be an expert. With an easy-to-use
interface, single-click diagnostics scan critical CPU, memory, video
hardware and more to identify impending problems to help you prevent
costly repairs. New in version 6, TechTool Pro ships standard in a 3
user Family Pack, yet provides a comprehensive suite of tests that also
delivers for the Mac professional.

The TechTool Pro dashboard makes everything easily accessible from a
single location
TechTool Pro's hard drive tools are second to none. Create an emergency
startup partition on the active system volume using TechTool Pro's
eDrive, without ever having to boot from a DVD. Perform a SMART test on
your internal ATA or SATA drives to detect changes in reliability, and
repair corrupt or damaged HFS+ volumes, including those in newer
solid-state devices (SSD's).
Use TechTool Pro's Volume Cloning to create exact duplicates of your
volumes for trouble-free archiving. Plus, TechTool Pro helps you
recover deleted files and lost data. If bad blocks are found when
scanning your hard drive, you can identify and restore the corrupted
files within them from previous backups you have archived.
To help keep your Mac running at peak performance, use TechTool Pro to
optimize your volumes after defragmenting your files, or to repair disk
permissions which may prevent problems accessing applications or files
on your Mac.
TechTool Pro also helps with device management within your local area
network (LAN). To monitor the configuration or security of your LAN,
TechTool Pro displays Bonjour supported devices and active services,
and helps track devices no longer available to the monitored network.
Count on TechTool Pro to provide total, continuous protection by
monitoring your system, alerting you when aberrant behavior is
detected, and helping you maintain top performance for your Mac every
day.
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Diagnostics
and Repair
The
best place to start is Check Computer, which performs a complete
diagnostics check of the computer and the Mac formatted hard drives
with one click of the mouse. This includes a SMART test of the
computer's built-in hard drive to check for impending drive failure, a
test of the computer's available RAM, analysis of the disk directories,
and much more. If problems are found, advice is provided on how to
proceed to repair the problem. Use Check Computer regularly as a part
of a preventive maintenance program.
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Volume Rebuild
In
addition to testing the disk directories of hard drives, TechTool Pro
can also rebuild damaged directories. This optimizes these critical
data structures and, on a corrupted drive, will repair any damage to
the directories. Use volume rebuild to keep your drives operating at
their peak performance.
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Optimization
TechTool
Pro performs both file and volume optimization. File optimization
consolidates fragmented files into a contiguous area of the hard drive.
Volume optimization consolidates the free space on a hard drive. The
resulting optimization simplifies the file storage layout and enhances
the overall performance of your drive.
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Data Recovery
TechTool
Pro helps you recovery your data from corrupted drives or volumes that
don't mount on the desktop to save the data to another location. Use
the Trash History feature to track the location of deleted files and
increase the chance of their recovery in the case of an accidental
deletion.
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eDrive
Upgraded in version 6!
New in version 6, the eDrive can now create a bootable Mac OS X
partition on the active system volume, which contains TechTool Pro's
toolset and important files from your systems framework. This can be
used in an emergency startup partition or to perform regular
maintenance on your Mac without the need to reformat, or to boot from a
DVD or secondary hard drive.
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Protection
TechTool
Pro includes the option to install the TechTool Protection system
preference, where you configure automatic functions that operate in the
background. In particular, you can configure Protection to track
deleted files, monitor the free space on your hard drives, save backups
of critical directory data to help with recovery in the event of drive
corruption, and to monitor the SMART routines of your hard drives. If
problems are found, Protection delivers onscreen and email alerts.
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Network
Added new in version 6!
TechTool Pro will monitor the configuration of your local area network
(LAN) by revealing the active services and ports on each selected
machine or Bonjour supported device on your LAN. This information is
important for strengthening security on a specific machine, Bonjour
supported device or your overall LAN, and is also helpful in tracking
what devices have been in use in the past that are no longer available
since the last time monitoring was performed.
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Cloning
Added new in version 6!
Volume Cloning creates exact duplicates of your volumes for
trouble-free archiving to backup your data and applications. Cloning
volumes can also be helpful if you are upgrading from a smaller size
hard drive to a larger hard drive. You also have the option of creating
a disc image of your volumes.
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TechTool Pro 6 is feature-packed with benefits that all Mac users need
for comprehensive diagnostics, repair, and maintenance. To ensure your
Mac stays optimized and trouble-free, make sure you use TechTool Pro 6
regularly and keep your Mac running at peak performance every day.
System Requirements:
- Macintosh PowerPC G4 or newer.
- Mac OS X 10.4.9 or greater.
- Mac OS X 10.5 or greater for eDrive creation on active
startup volume.
- DVD drive.
- 512 MB RAM or higher.
 
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